Full Coverage: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Off the Wires
- Arts panel criticizes MLK statue design for DC memorial AP - Fri May 9, 7:41 PM ET
- US wants more Rodin, less Lenin in Martin Luther King statue AFP - Fri May 9, 2:28 PM ET
News Stories
- Sanitation Workers Honored by City of Memphis at Eyewitness News Memphis - Thu, Apr 03, 2008
- Sister remembers 'horrible moment' King was killed at CNN.com - Thu, Apr 03, 2008
- FBI tracked King's every move at CNN.com - Tue, Apr 01, 2008
- Luther King memorial work begins at BBC - Mon, Nov 13, 2006
- MLK's message remembered at memorial groundbreaking at CNN.com - Mon, Nov 13, 2006
Feature Articles
- Archives reveal mood that permeated city just after King assassination at Memphis Commercial Appeal (reg. req'd) - Fri, Apr 04, 2008
- Seeking answers on King's killer at BBC - Fri, Apr 04, 2008
- The Other Side of the Mountaintop at The Washington Post - Fri, Apr 04, 2008
- Through Trying Times for Blacks, a Place of Peace at The New York Times - Fri, Apr 04, 2008
- Q&A With The Late Coretta Scott King at The Huffington Post - Fri, Apr 04, 2008
- Remembering Martin Luther King at Radio Netherlands - Fri, Apr 04, 2008
Photos
40th Anniversary of King Assassination
In this file photo from April 14, 2008, Jenna Bush, daughter of first lady Laura Bush and President Bush, herself a teacher, visits with first grade students at Martin ...
Related Web Sites
- "I Have a Dream"
- audio recording and transcript of King's speech. From American Rhetoric's Online Speech Bank.
- King Center
- nonprofit organization that educates the world about King's philosophy and methods of nonviolence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation
- information on the project's history, vision, and idesign.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
- includes biography and primary and secondary documents. From Stanford University.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site
- Learn about the Martin Luther King, Jr. museums in Atlanta, Georgia. Includes a virtual tour of the civil rights leader's birth home, as well as facts about his earliest church. From the National Parks Service.
- Career of Humanity
- tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
FEATURED VIDEO
Audio
- Who Shot King?: 40 Years Later, Questions Still Loom at NPR - Fri, Apr 04, 2008
- King's Speeches Still Teaching Important Lessons in Rhetoric at NPR - Fri, Apr 04, 2008
- 'At Canaan's Edge,' Martin Luther King's Final Years at NPR - Fri, Apr 04, 2008